Who cares, its finally an interesting enough target for us to actually think about building an interstellar probe. The sooner we launch one, the sooner our descendants build a better, faster probe that will outrun the first.

This is the part that confuses me. As I get older I am noticing that I have lost my twitch reaction speeds, so I can no longer play Quake, or Team Fortress very well. However, what I have lost in speed reaction, I have gained in cleverness. Having played a lot of games and seen how mechanics work, I am able to more quickly come up with solutions to problems via "Out of the box thinking".

Now I am curious if anyone else is the same way, I suppose that now that I am forced to move more slowly, my brain is counteracting that by helping me strategize more quickly. Maybe it is just a part of my inner workings, but I doubt I am any more special than anyone else.

In their defense, she WAS just a child in the first picture, and in the latter she was an adult woman. Change of hair would be expected, she was no longer a kid, and did not want to appear as one. But it really could go either way, you are probably right.

I definitely agree with you. I think all of my favorite episodes centered around the doctor, 7 of 9, or any of the harder science. I think I am going to go watch a few episodes when I get home from work today.

No, you are still wrong. Earth orbits the Sun, however, the Sun is affected by the gravitational pull from the Earth, and is therefore also shifted slightly toward it. The gravitational effect of the smaller body is not included in the definition of orbit. It simply states:

The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, esp. a periodic elliptical revolution.

You are really starting to look like a troll at this point, so maybe you should just call it a day, mate. If, however you are not trolling and simply misunderstanding, then please say so, I would be glad to help you understand.

Why not? He never said anything about the barycenter, which would move anyway. The sun being the center of the solar system is correct, regardless of the precise orbits of the planets. They all orbit around the most massive object here, which is the sun. In other single star solar systems, it is the same way.

However, if we had a binary system, I would definitely be with you on this one, how would one determine the center of the solar system then? I suppose perhaps the barycenter of the two stars would be used in that instance, but I really have no idea.

This was really my only thought after reading through all of these comments. It appears to be of little use due to the impracticality of it. But it would very quickly take down a kaiju, godzilla, aliens, etc...